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  2. From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.writing
  4. Subject: Re: FUNSIES: Antonymous Collectives
  5. Message-ID: <Btyy74.GMH@unx.sas.com>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 20:57:03 GMT
  7. References: <78806@ut-emx.uucp> <57680025@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Sep2.173940.8103@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
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  15. In article <1992Sep2.173940.8103@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>, perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
  16. |> In article <57680025@hpscit.sc.hp.com> fish@hpscit.sc.hp.com (John Fisher) writes:
  17. |> >
  18. |> >A block of writers???
  19. |> >
  20. |> >Ack!  I can't believe I did this!
  21. |>
  22. |> That's not contradictory! Writers get writer's block all the time.
  23. |>
  24. |> How about "a dyslexicalis of writers"? Or maybe "an illiterati of
  25. |> writers"?
  26. |>
  27.  
  28. Ok, ok, you roped me into this one. 
  29.  
  30. A volume of novelists
  31. A collection of short story writers
  32. An issue of journalists
  33. A file of "manual laborers" (technical writers - two puns here for one 
  34.                              low price!)
  35.  
  36. Luckily for you, that's all for now.
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  38. |  Len Olszewski                | "Down with categorical imperative!" |
  39. |  Technical Writer             |                                     |
  40. |  saslpo@unx.sas.com           |                                     |
  41. | "Have cursor, will curse."    |    - Rhetorical contradiction       |
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  43. | Opinions this ludicrous are mine. Reasonable opinions will cost you.|
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